Britons are increasingly forced to pull their teeth due to NHS dental shortages, with 13 million people waiting for care and ...

Dentists say NHS contracts are becoming more challenging to fulfil meaning they need to hand contracts back or lose money.

NHS emergency dental appointments are to be prioritised in problem areas starting from April but dentists warn more needs to ...

Sir Chris Whitty has quoted a Mirror front page story and warns of the long term impact of children not accessing an NHS ...

The NHS in Wales spent £262m on agency staff last year as it faces a recruitment crisis and more than 5,600 job vacancies.

The NHS’s dental recovery plan has “clearly failed” to incentivise dentists to see new patients, Sir Chris Whitty has said.

NHS dentistry is “very weak”, England’s chief medical officer has said as he warned that a lack of access to dentistry for ...

Audit Wales warned that progress to tackle the problems are "hampered by the absence of a national workforce plan, gaps in ...

UK-wide research carried out by BBC News in 2022 found that 9 out of 10 NHS dentists were no longer accepting new adult ...

Carla Denyer, Green Party co-leader and MP for Bristol Central, said the "astonishing scenes" outside the practice last year was a "testament to how broken NHS dentistry is".

While there have been improvements in some areas, the NHS is “still experiencing challenges with recruitment and retention, ...

The cost for 1.13 million new patients would be ... to drive up the number of people able to access NHS dental services; ‘golden hellos’ to incentivise dentists to practice in under-served ...